Here is the latest edition of “10 things you may not know” — about Colorado State (6-6, 4-3 Mountain West) vs. visiting Air Force (2-9, 0-7). Kickoff is at noon. No TV but live streaming via espn3.com.

As always, special thanks to the schools’ sports information departments for supplying a large share of the content.

1. Colorado State has lost each of the past seven meetings with Air Force, by an average score of 40-21. But prior to that current drought, CSU had won four of the previous five against the Falcons, and 11 of 14.

2. CSU already has its most wins in a season (six) since going 7-6 in 2008. That’s also the year of the Rams’ last bowl appearance — a 40-35 win over Fresno State in the New Mexico Bowl — and was the first season for CSU coach Steve Fairchild. Things appeared rosy, with the program’s first winning season in five years. But the Rams would go 3-9 in each of Fairchild’s subsequent three seasons and he was fired following the 2011 season.

3. Air Force leads the series 31-19-1, including 20-13 when a conference game. The Falcons have a 13-8 advantage in games played at Fort Collins. For Air Force, the meetings with CSU are tied with Wyoming for the longest series in Falcons history. Air Force has left with a victory after its previous three trips to Fort Collins.

Kapri Bibbs of Colorado State University controls the ball against University of Nevada at Hughes Stadium. (Hyoung Chang, Denver Post file)

Here’s another weekly installment of “10 things you may not know” — about Saturday’s Colorado State vs. Utah State game (1:30 p.m., CBS Sports Net) in Logan, Utah.

Special thanks go to the respective sports information staffs of both schools for providing a large share of the info.

Here goes:

1. Utah State (6-4, 5-1 Mountain West) is in its first year as a member of the Mountain West. The Aggies won the Western Athletic Conference title in 2012 with records of 11-2 overall and 6-0 in the WAC. That was the final year of football for the WAC.

2. Utah State wide receivers coach Jovon Bouknight starred at Wyoming and finished his playing career in Laramie ranked second all-time in receptions with 250. Already in his fifth season on the Utah State staff, Bouknight is a Denver native. He played high school ball at Manual, where he was a quarterback.

3. Colorado State leads the series 36-31-2, including 20-17-1 in games in Logan. It’s one of CSU’s longest series, with the first meeting in 1902.

4. In a 2012 nonconference meeting, Utah State defeated CSU 31-19 in Fort Collins. Utah State held a 17-0 halftime lead. That snapped a string of four consecutive victories for CSU in the series.

Kapri Bibbs of Colorado State University controls the ball against University of Nevada at Hughes Stadium. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)

Here’s another weekly installment of “10 things you may not know” — about Colorado State at New Mexico.

As usual, special thanks to the sports information departments of the respective schools.

1. This is the final home game of the season for New Mexico, which stands 2-3 in homes games with victories over New Mexico State (66-17) and Air Force (45-37 last week). The Lobos complete their 2013 schedule with road games against arguably the top two teams in the Mountain West Conference: at Fresno State and at Boise State. Eighteen UNM seniors will play their final home game Saturday, including nine starters. They will be recognized with pregame introductions.

2. New Mexico typically does not beat itself. The Lobos are plus-1 in turnover margin for the season and are tied for third nationally in fewest penalty yards per game (29.1).

3. Colorado State leads the series 35-25 and holds an 18-14 advantage over the Lobos in games played in Albuquerque. Since 1989, the Rams have a 15-7 advantage in the series and have won the past three meetings.

4. CSU is coming off consecutive road victories, over Wyoming and Hawaii. The last time the Rams won three in a row away from Fort Collins was 2002 (Utah, Air Force and San Diego State).

Colorado State Rams running back Kapri Bibbs in action during spring (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)

Here’s my weekly installment of “10 things you may not know” — about Saturday’s Nevada at Colorado State game.

As always, special thanks go to the schools’ respective sports information offices.

1. Although Colorado State and Nevada have met 10 previous times since 1997, this will be the first as Mountain West Conference foes. Nevada left the Western Athletic Conference and joined the MW beginning with the 2012 football season. CSU leads the series 9-2 but Nevada has won two of the past three — including the most recent meeting: 51-6 in Reno on Sept. 11, 2010, when current NFL star Colin Kaepernick threw for two touchdowns and ran for a pair.

2. First-year Wolf Pack coach Brian Polian had never previously been a head coach. But he’s the son of former NFL executive Bill Polian and can joke that football oozes from his veins. Give Brian credit, he didn’t tug on the NFL coattails of his dad. He had served as an assistant coach at Michigan State, University of Buffalo, Baylor, Notre Dame, Stanford and Texas A&M.

Here’s this week’s edition of 10 things you may not know … about Colorado State’s home game Saturday night against Boise State.

As always, with special thanks to the respective sports info offices of the respective schools.

1. Amazingly with both schools located in the Rocky Mountain region, Colorado State and Boise State had never met in football prior to 2011, when the Broncos joined the Mountain West Conference.

2. Although Boise State is a modest 5-3, the Broncos remain the winningest major-college program since 2000. Boise State is 152-24 (.864) since then, ahead of Oklahoma (.819), Ohio State (.809), Texas (.787) and LSU (.782) in the top five. The Broncos also are the highest scoring team (40.88) since 2000, ahead of Oregon (37.61), Oklahoma (36.87) and Texas (36.86).

3. The Broncos have lost three games for only the second time in Chris Petersen’s eight years as head coach. His second team, the 2007 Broncos, went 10-3.

4. Colorado State was outgained in total offensive yards 503 to 229 in last year’s meeting, a 42-14 Boise State win in Boise. It was even worse the previous year in Fort Collins, when the Broncos outgained CSU by 742 to 231 in a 63-13 beat down of the Rams.

Here’s our weekly edition of “Ten things you may not know” — this time regarding Saturday night’s Colorado State (3-4, 1-1 Mountain West) game at Hawaii (0-6, 0-4).

As usual, special thanks to the respective schools’ sports information departments.

1. It’s the way of the world: The official name of Hawaii’s home stadium is now “Hawaiian Airlines Field at Aloha Stadium.” Yes, that’s the long-time home of the NFL’s Pro Bowl.

2. This is the first time that Hawaii has been winless through six games since the 0-12 disaster of 1998.

3. The only Coloradan on the Hawaii roster is sophomore Brenden Urban, a reserve offensive lineman from Littleton who played high school football at Chatfield. Urban transferred to Hawaii from Adams State in Alamosa.

With a special thanks to the sports information directors at the respective schools, here is my weekly installment of 10 things you may not know — about Saturday’s “Border War” rivalry game between Colorado State and Wyoming.

1. Wyoming lists Saturday’s game as the 105th meeting, while Colorado State calls it the 104th meeting. The difference is, Wyoming includes the first game, on Nov. 30, 1899, while CSU does not count it because it was a forfeit victory — even though it was a win for CSU. Wyoming says it chooses to include that 1899 meeting because research shows that the game did indeed start before a disagreement led to a forfeit.

2. The Bronze Boot traveling trophy that goes to the winner was an actual military boot worn by CSU alumnus Dan Romero in Vietnam. The Bronze Boot trophy dates to 1968.

3. Wyoming trails in the “Border War” series 44-55-5 (by its count) but leads in the series since the end of World War II by a 39-28 margin — including victories in the past four meetings. Wyoming last won five straight in the series from 1969-73.

With a big thanks to the sports information departments of the respective schools, here are 10 things you may not know about Saturday’s game in Fort Collins between Colorado State (2-3, 0-0 MW) and San Jose State (2-3, 1-1):

1. Colorado State offensive coordinator Dave Baldwin was San Jose State’s head coach for four seasons (1997-2000).

2. Already this season, SJSU will be playing in its fourth time zone (Mountain) in Fort Collins, following games against Minnesota (Central), San Jose (Pacific) and Hawaii (Hawaii-Aleutian).

5. According to Stats.com, Spartans senior linebacker Keith Smith is the only player dating back at least to 1998 to record 20 or more tackles in consecutive games. He had 21 stops at Minnesota and 20 vs. Utah State.

2. Kugler played at UTEP (1985-88 as an offensive lineman) and, according to research conducted by the school, he is one of only 12 active Division I coaches at their alma mater. Some of the notables include Troy Calhoun (Air Force), Pat Fitzgerald (Northwestern), Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State), David Shaw (Stanford) and Frank Beamer (Virginia Tech).

If observers didn’t know it, they might have guessed that Colorado’s practice on Thursday was the 20th of August camp rather than the first.

Nobody was running into each other heading in the wrong direction.

My how things have changed. Having covered college football for most of my three-plus decades as a sports writer, I remember back in the day when first practices looked about as ragged as an old T-shirt. Coaches would almost have to take freshmen by the hand to show them where to go. Players would find themselves on wrong practice fields. Assistant coaches had to take on the role of drill sergeants barking out basic instructions.

Not anymore. Colorado’s first workout was crisp and effecient.

And I liked the fact that, while getting in the work, the coaches tried at times to lighten things up by joking around on occasion and setting up competitive drills that had teammates rooting for one side or another.

Kensler joined The Denver Post in 1989 and has covered a variety of beats, including Colorado, Colorado State, golf, Olympics and the Denver Broncos. His brush with greatness: losing in a two-on-two pickup basketball game at Ohio State against two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.